Design Experiences for Children

Designing for children is more than making a bright and colourful app. It requires a deeper understanding of children’s development cycle and educational needs. Design Experiences for Children shows you how to create effective and appropriate websites and apps for children. If you've been charged with designing sites and apps for children, this book shows you how to create designs that implement child developmental models and how to adjust user research methods for kids. It uses a case study approach to help you break down industry-leading applications and explores emerging technologies and how to think about those in terms of designing for children.

Key Features

Features quick, creative exercises designed to help you understand the world of children that include building rules, understanding consequences, and creating games from nothingOffers crayon paper prototyping to help you engage with kids and get the feedback you need.Provides tools on how to design experiences for children with cognitive disabilities and what sort of mental and physical limitations you have to consider when designing for an audience with a broad range of capabilities.